Held ball or foul?

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Freddy

Is this the kinda play on which some would not call a foul?

I've got a foul on the Black player, and I believe that the trail has the same call as me.

[Freddy]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

I've got a foul on the Black player, and I believe that the trail has the same call as me.

Of course, only an anal grammar nazi would dare suggest that you should have said, "...as I."
But since there is no need for rules or structure or form or orderliness in language anymore -- because, after all, the English were loose with their verbage at some point back in the 16th century -- it really doesn't matter.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Freddy

... there is no need for rules or structure or form or orderliness in language anymore ...

The English language hasn't changed since it was invented. Why should we be allowed to change it now?

To telle yow al the condicioun, Of ech of hem, so as it semed me, And whiche they weren, and of what degree, And eek in what array that they were inne, And at a knyght than wol I first bigynne.

http://comicskingdom.com/rhymes-with-orange/2014-05-15

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

The English language hasn't changed since it was invented. Why should we be allowed to change it now?

Are you sure about that? The English language is a forever changing thing and always will be. If you know someone that speaks under all the rules and does not use slang, dialect or other social media language it will be a very rare occasion. Oh and the English that spoke the language speak it differently than people in the US. And people in this country never speak it the same way or understand it the same way.

Peace

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Are you sure about that?

Please don't make me whip out the blue font and use it on the general prologue to Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.

Maybe a line from Beowulf would have been a better example:

Oft Scyld the Scefing from scathers in numbers
From many a people their mead-benches tore.

"Nothing is more discouraging than unappreciated sarcasm." (Anonymous)

[Adam]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

The English language hasn't changed since it was invented. Why should we be allowed to change it now?

To telle yow al the condicioun, Of ech of hem, so as it semed me, And whiche they weren, and of what degree, And eek in what array that they were inne, And at a knyght than wol I first bigynne.

Rhymes with Orange by Hilary Price - May 15, 2014 | Comics | Comics Kingdom - Comic Strips, Editorial Cartoons, Sunday Funnies, Jokes

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Are you sure about that? The English language is a forever changing thing and always will be. If you know someone that speaks under all the rules and does not use slang, dialect or other social media language it will be a very rare occasion. Oh and the English that spoke the language speak it differently than people in the US. And people in this country never speak it the same way or understand it the same way.

Peace

This was holy crap funny to me.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Adam

This was holy crap funny to me.

Is that a line from the second nun's tale?

[Adam]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Is that a line from the second nun's tale?

Was that the one with Whoopi Goldberg?

[Rooster]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Are you sure about that? The English language is a forever changing thing and always will be. If you know someone that speaks under all the rules and does not use slang, dialect or other social media language it will be a very rare occasion. Oh and the English that spoke the language speak it differently than people in the US. And people in this country never speak it the same way or understand it the same way.

Peace

It might be time to refill a prescription of chill pills.

Know Peace

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Are you sure about that? The English language is a forever changing thing and always will be. If you know someone that speaks under all the rules and does not use slang, dialect or other social media language it will be a very rare occasion. Oh and the English that spoke the language speak it differently than people in the US. And people in this country never speak it the same way or understand it the same way.

Peace

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

In JRutledge's defense, I did not include a Roll Eyes Sarcastic Smilie in my post. I don't do Smilies. There weren't any Smiles in Beowulf, or The Canterbury Tales, so why should I use them? Did William Shakespeare use Smilies in Hamlet?